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Full episode 14.03.10 | 00:30 - 01:00 UTC

Arts.21 - The Cultural Magazine

Full episode

Arts.21 - The Cultural Magazine

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Intimacy! – Bathing in Art

ARTS.21 scrubs up for an exhibition all about bathing and heads to Hollywood to see how German directors feel after the Oscars. We also see what happens to artistic expression in dictatorships - such as the former communist bloc and in China, Iran and Cuba today.

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After the Oscars – German Film in Los Angeles

Germany had more Oscar nominations this year than ever before. Our reporter Hans Christoph von Bock went to Los Angeles to see what kind of a profile the German film industry has in Hollywood and how much the Oscars mean to Germans in the dream factory.

Curtain Up – The End of the East European Dictatorships

György Dalos' book about the fall of the Iron Curtain is an unflinching and exacting account of the demise of communism. The journalist and historian just won the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding.

Surveillance – The Stasi and Author Günter Grass

The Stasi was communist East-Germany's secret police. Between the years of 1961 to 1989 the West-German Nobel Prize laureate Günter Grass was a prime target for their observations. Roughly 2,200 pages of the collected material have now been published in a book. What it tells us: Günter Grass was more closely monitored than one might expect.

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Our favourites this week

  • Berlin's Museumsinsel – 10 years on the UNESCO World Heritage list
  • Roger Melis – 'Flaneur' and photographer in an exhibition in Berlin
  • "Rheingold" – Richard Wagner's masterpiece at the Opéra Bastille in Paris

Intimacy! – Bathing in Art

An exhibition at the Ahlen Art Museum traces the history of bathing and depicts it as a primal urge.

The works of art on show reflect changing perceptions of the body, beauty and intimacy, and provide a broad historical and thematic overview of bathing and bathrooms. "Intimacy!" features 150 works of art from the 15th century to the present day, including paintings, sketches, prints, photographs, sculptures and video installations.